RAVANA'S KINGDOM:Partly it was all one kingdom, and one part was being managed by his brother

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731201SB.LA                  Lectures   Just like Ravana. Ravana, Hiranyakasipu,

they were demons, godless demons. Ravana was very learned scholar in Vedic

knowledge and very powerful materially. He converted his capital with gold, all

the buildings and everything. It is supposed that Ravana's brother was a king

of..., on the other side of the globe. So it is my suggestion... I do not say

it is very scientific proof. So other side of the globe... Ravana was in

Ceylon, and the other side of the globe, if you go by subway, it comes to

Brazil. And Brazil is supposed to have gold mines. And it is said in the

Ramayana that Ravana's brother was living on the other side of the globe, and

Ramacandra was taken through the subway. So taking this into consideration, we

can suppose that Ravana imported large quantity of gold from Brazil, and he

converted them into big, big houses. So Ravana was so powerful that he made his

capital Svarna-lanka, "capital made of gold." Just like if a man comes from

undeveloped country to your country, New York or any city, when they see the

big, big skyscraper, they become astonished. Although skyscraper buildings are

everywhere nowadays, formerly it was very wonderful.

 

 

SB 4.22.36 P Prthu Maharaja' s Meeting with the Four Kumaras   However, when one

is sincere in his devotional service, the Lord obliges the devotee to give up

his material development and completely surrender unto Him. Because the Lord

does not give blessings of material opulence to His devotee, people are afraid

of worshiping Lord Visnu because they see that the Vaisnavas, who are

worshipers of Lord Visnu, are poor in superficial material opulences. Such

materialistic persons, however, get immense opportunity for economic

development by worshiping Lord Siva, for Lord Siva is the husband of the

goddess Durga, the proprietor of this universe. By the grace of Lord Siva, a

devotee gets the opportunity to be blessed by the goddess Durga. Ravana, for

example, was a great worshiper and devotee of Lord Siva, and in return he got

all the blessings of goddess Durga, so much so that his whole kingdom was

constructed of golden buildings. In Brazil, in this present age, huge

quantities of gold have been found, and from historical references in the

Puranas, we can guess safely that this was Ravana's kingdom. This kingdom was,

however, destroyed by Lord Ramacandra.

 

731201SB.LA                  Lectures   Just like Ravana. Ravana, Hiranyakasipu,

they were demons, godless demons. Ravana was very learned scholar in Vedic

knowledge and very powerful materially. He converted his capital with gold, all

the buildings and everything. It is supposed that Ravana's brother was a king

of..., on the other side of the globe. So it is my suggestion... I do not say

it is very scientific proof. So other side of the globe... Ravana was in

Ceylon, and the other side of the globe, if you go by subway, it comes to

Brazil. And Brazil is supposed to have gold mines. And it is said in the

Ramayana that Ravana's brother was living on the other side of the globe, and

Ramacandra was taken through the subway. So taking this into consideration, we

can suppose that Ravana imported large quantity of gold from Brazil, and he

converted them into big, big houses. So Ravana was so powerful that he made his

capital Svarna-lanka, "capital made of gold." Just like if a man comes from

undeveloped country to your country, New York or any city, when they see the

big, big skyscraper, they become astonished. Although skyscraper buildings are

everywhere nowadays, formerly it was very wonderful.

 

DARWIN.SYA                Charles Darwin                PhilosophyPrabhupada:

Mexico is Indian civilization. They were showing to (indistinct). The Ravana

had subway to Brazil. It can be seen from here where you can make

subway...Syamasundara: Yes, straight through.Prabhupada: Straight through. And

therefore Ravana had so much gold; he took it from his brother's kingdom.

Partly it was all one kingdom, and one part was being managed by his brother

(indistinct) and one by himself. And in the Ramayana it is said that

Rama-Laksmana was taken to a subway to (indistinct)'s place; that means Rama

and Laksmana was taken to Brazil through subway. So now if you can make subways

now--there actually there is subway for five hundred miles--why not five

thousand miles? What is the difficulty? If it is possible to make subway up to

five hundred, why not five thousand? It will require so many

things.Syamasundara: They say that the center of the earth is molten fire,

fiery. It is liquid. Liquid fire.Bali-mardana: (indistinct) insulated tube,

insulated tube through the fire.Prabhupada: No. That portion may be

avoided.Syamasundara: Oh. Go around the crust.Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore "I am

going in subway, now here is the hard column, so I go this way." What is, what

is that?Syamasundara: If worms can do it, why we can't?Prabhupada: Rats can do

it. Snake can do it. Not snake. Snakes cannot. Rats can do. (break)